Princeton University, 26.9

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3211

Shelfmark:

26.9

Title:

Gospel lectionary

Lectionary

Author:

Orthodox Eastern Church

Eastern Orthodox Church WIKIDATA

Date:

11--

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Greek

Greek WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 739 pages : parchment ; 255 x 195 (255 x 82) mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Cataloged from existing description.
Collation: Parchment ; fols. 739 ; modern pagination in pencil.
Layout: 20-25 lines in 2 columns; hardpoint ruling.
Description: Written in brown ink by two scribes ; scribe A wrote pp. 3-702 and 711-739 in minuscule script ; titles, initials, liturgical references, and references to feasts in gold alexandrinischer Auszeichnungsmaiuskel ; ekphonetic notation and some text initials in red ink ; scribe B wrote pp. 703-710 in a larger minuscule script ; here the titles, initials and some ekphonetic notation...
Decoration: miniatures and painted initials. A colophon on p. 615 indicates an abbot Alexios Stoudios commissioned and guilded the manuscript. But the colophon is false as most of the decoration in this manuscript was executed in the 20th century by the forger Demetrios Pelekasis (1881-1973).
Origin: Probably written in Constantinople in the 12th century.

Keyword:

miniatures (paintings)

Goatskin bindings

parchment (animal material)

lectionaries

Twelfth century

illuminated manuscripts

minuscule

Manuscripts, Greek

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9937634763506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c2e5a67e-4870-45e2-a5f9-40f9a407a26b/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University